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Especialmente para Ti!!!

CTT criam Caixa Solidária para ajudar madeirenses

«Há caixas de duas dimensões, consoante as pessoas tenham muita coisa para entregar ou não. Escreve no endereço Madeira e os CTT fazem o envio gratuito para a Madeira e lá com as parcerias que têm com duas instituições de solidariedade social fazem a distribuição desses produtos e bens»
"Bens de maior necessidade: cobertores, almofadas, roupa de criança, homem e mulher e interior, fraldas, produtos de higiene em geral e produtos como leite em pó, comida para bebé e enlatados."
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Não, não coloco imagens chocantes, a TV faz isso mais do que é preciso...

A Resiliência dos Madeirenses enche-me de orgulho! 

Benefits of Meditation

"Meditation affects the body in exactly the opposite ways that stress does, restoring the body to a calm state, helping the body to repair itself, and preventing new damage due to the physical effects of stress.
When practicing meditation, your heart rate and breathing slow down, your blood pressure normalizes, you use oxygen more efficiently, and you sweat less. Also, your adrenal glands produce less cortisol, your mind ages at a slower rate, and your immune function improves. Your mind also clears and your creativity increases. People who meditate regularly find it easier to give up life-damaging habits like smoking, drinking and drugs."
"Meditation is widely recommended as a healthy way to manage stress, and for good reason. It provides many health-enhancing benefits, like reducing symptoms of stress and anxiety, relieving physical complaints like headaches, and even enhancing immunity to illness."

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People!

Imagens daqui

Peace of Mind

Imagens daqui

Já precisamos de instruções...

..para TUDO...

Open Arms!

Don't Stop Believing

Just a small town girl
Livin' in a lonely world
She took the midnight train going anywhere
Just a city boy
Born and raised in South Detroit
He took the midnight train going anywhere

A singer in a smoky room
The smell of wine and cheap perfume
For a smile they can share the night
It goes on and on and on and on

Strangers waiting
Up and down the boulevard
Their shadows searching in the night
Streetlights people
Living just to find emotion
Hiding somewhere in the night

Working hard to get my fill
Everybody wants a thrill
Payin' anything to roll the dice
Just one more time

Some will win, some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues
Oh, the movie never ends
It goes on and on and on and on

Strangers waiting
Up and down the boulevard
Their shadows searching in the night
Streetlights people
Living just to find emotion
Hiding somewhere in the night

(3x)
Don't stop believin'
Hold on to the feelin'
Streetlights people

Become your Best Friend

It's all about life...

That's what I think of you*

Sorry...

Ok se o Freud diz...

Freudian Inventory Results

Oral (60%) you appear to have a good balance of independence and interdependence knowing when to accept help and when to do things on your own. Anal (56%) you appear to have a good balance of self control and spontaneity, order and chaos, variety and selectivity. Phallic (56%) you appear to have a good balance of sexual awareness and sexual composure. Latency (26%) you appear to be overly practical; don't undervalue abstract learning, abstract learning increases your ability to make good decisions (and predictions) in the real world so it would be 'impractical' to shun it. Genital (66%) you appear to have a progressive and openminded outlook on life unbeholden to regressive forces like traditional authority and convention.

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The Pursuit of Happiness

"Let’s face it. We all want to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a common pursuit. We all realize, sooner or later, that outer success does not produce lasting happiness.

So what does? Loving ourselves and loving others. In fact, we can only love others authentically when we love ourselves.
So why is it that some people seem to feel self love easily, while others spend their lives searching in relationships or career accomplishments to find it? While it may seem cliche, the answer does seem to point to experiences in childhood.
What we know as self esteem begins, originally, in the esteem parents have for their children. Through the simplest acts of touch, attention to feelings, and guidance toward accomplishment, a child comes to see their own worth reflected in their parents’ eyes. They see themselves as love-able i.e. worthy and able to be loved.

These feelings are so powerful that they have been found to influence longevity. When through various forms of abuse and neglect a child fails to get this mirror of love, two things happen. First the child begins to take in the feeling of defectiveness or un-loveability. Since, to a child, a parent is God, parental abuse and neglect (including insensitivity to feelings) is experienced as justified. "If mommy or daddy treats me this way, it must be my fault."

A second thing also happens. Children are masters at devising strategies to get love or prevent abandonment. A common "protective strategy" is perfectionism. "If I'm perfect, then mommy or daddy will love me."
The search for perfection can become a lifetime one, whether it be for the perfect partner, the perfect accomplishment, or the perfect amusement or "high." But the result will always be disappointing. Nothing can replace self love.

Is there hope for those who didn't get enough love in childhood? The answer is a resounding yes!! But like anything worthwhile, it takes effort. The key is in the way we experience our memories of parenting.
Rather than being simply static memories from childhood, each of us carries within our mind an "inner parent," a voice which talks to us much as our parents did. If our parenting was primarily supportive, our self talk will be so also. If our parenting was primarily negative, we will tend to be self critical much of the time.
Some of this self criticism will be a simple replay of what we heard. More often, though, a child criticizes themselves to protect their relationship with parents. In this fact lies both the source of much of our distress -- and the seed of our renewal.
Once we realize that people with high self-esteem talk lovingly to themselves -- especially when under stress, and those with low self-esteem are self critical, we create for ourselves a pathway to change. The goal becomes changing the way we talk to ourselves."

by Norm Ephraim, Ed.D.
Daqui

p.s. Os nossos Pais também tiveram Pais que...fuck them up e, os Pais dos nossos Pais igualmente.... isto para dizer que, a Culpa não é dos Pais de ninguém!

E porque Rir é mesmo o melhor Remédio

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I have a dream...

with open eyes!

Valentine's Day

Daqui

Promoting Resilience (4)

Identity

1. Who am I?
2. How do I compare with others?
3. What are my new relationships with my parents (and other authority figures)?
4. What have I accomplished?
5. Where do I go from here?

When you answer these questions to your satisfaction, you show skills in monitoring your own behavior, comparing your behavior with accepted standards, being helpful and supportive of others, using your fantasy and initiative to make dreams come true, and recognizing the role of idealism in thinking and planning.
 In other words, not only should all your resilience factors be developed, you should be enjoying them.

Many cannot answer these questions to their satisfaction and become self-doubting and unsure of who they really are. They feel that no one understands them, including themselves. They may be totally confused about how to behave and about their role in life.
These feelings of insecurity may bring on frustration, anger, and a sense of hopelessness.
Perhaps they need to realize they are constantly changing as a result of experiences, new insights, and new adversities.

Promoting identity can be to help the development of good interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
You can do this by discussing the interpersonal skills individuals have and those they need. Social skills include making friends who challenge them in constructive ways, learning how to listen, and learning how to
express anger, disappointment, disagreement, and empathy.

Edith Henderson Grotberg in "Resilience for Today"

Promoting Resilience (3)

Industry

"Industry is defined as working diligently at a task.

Industry is a powerful building block and is enhanced through its connection with other resilience factors.
Good role models and encouragement to be independent are important; being an achiever who plans for the future and who is responsible for his or her own behavior are helpful.

Staying with a task until it is finished, problem solving, and reaching out for help when needed, reinforce or add to the resilience factors that are being promoted.

What is different, however, is learning how to differentiate not only what resilience factors to use in any given situation, but also how to use them.

Many children and youth do not develop industry, they developed feelings of inferiority. They become extremely sensitive about their limitations. They may well have been teased, bullied, or excluded from a group because of their failures.

Adults who have not developed this stage of industry are often those who dropped out of school because of failure there, including social failure.

They lost their desire to master skills, were reluctant to deal with any more failures, and decided to get away. Many adults who had such experiences have difficulty opening themselves to similar, more sophisticated ways of being rejected.

You can encourage people to draw on their autonomy and independence to help them do their work, complete tasks, ask questions when something is not clear, assume responsibility for their work, and feel proud of their achievements. You can talk with them about developing cooperation by looking around them to see with whom they can work comfortably.

Cooperation also suggests they can resolve conflicts in decision making and in taking actions. You can point out that problem-solving skills include being willing to take the initiative, but also being able to deal with inevitable conflicts.

You can help them improve their communication skills, practice being assertive, and learn to listen.

Edith Henderson Grotberg in "Resilience for Today"

Diz-me com quem andas...

E eu digo-te quem tu és!

Promoting Resilience (2)

Autonomy
"Autonomy is defined as independence and freedom—the ability to make your own decisions.
Many children and youth do not become autonomous. Sometimes they live in homes where fear of punishment and physical harm make any expression of autonomy dangerous. Sometimes they made mistakes
that brought responses of such derision and ridicule they wouldn’t try again. Many adults had these same experiences as children and never tried to become autonomous, always deferring to someone else, someone more powerful, someone more assertive.
Make clear to them it’s okay to make mistakes; they can learn from their mistakes.
You can assure them that mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of, and you can encourage them to take the risk of making mistakes. You will be there whether they fail or succeed."

Initiative
"Initiative is the ability and willingness to take action. Many children and youth do not develop initiative. They experienced too much rejection from those they asked for help, and thus they felt unworthy of help. No one cared; no one wanted to help. Eventually, they stopped wanting or trying to take the initiative in anything.
Adults who do not take the initiative have the same fear of making mistakes.
An entry point for promoting initiative is to encourage children and youth to decide what they would enjoy doing.
Help them see that failure can be a great learning experience. It opens them up to new ideas of how to be successful."

Edith Henderson Grotberg in "Resilience for Today"

Promoting Resilience

Trust

"When people feel trusting, they are more ready to accept limits to their behavior, are more likely to become likable, empathic and caring, optimistic and hopeful and can more easily engage in successful interpersonal relationships, solve problems in various settings, and reach out for help.
They not only trust others, they learn to trust themselves, knowing those they trust will not allow harm to come their way.

People who do not trust others often learn to control others or rely only on themselves: if you want something done right, do it yourself, would be a plausible mantra.
Separate themselves from others, go their own way, and often are highly successful in their chosen
work. However, they avoid getting involved emotionally and reject efforts of others to develop any meaningful relationships.

Not only do individuals need to learn to trust others, but also to trust themselves. When they do not trust themselves, they may well become dependent on others, feeling certain others are better than they are, know more, and are the most likely to protect them.

An entry point for those who wish to promote resilience in children and youth is clearly by building a trusting relationship with them."

Edith Henderson Grotberg in "Resilience for Today"

What is resilience?

Resilience is the human capacity to deal with, overcome, learn from, or even be transformed by the inevitable adversities of life.

You have to Believe

Ironia

(latim ironia, -ae, do grego eironeía, -as, dissimulação, ignorância)

s. f.1. Expressão ou gesto que dá a entender, em determinado contexto, o contrário ou algo diferente do que significa.

2. Atitude de quem usa expressões ou gestos irónicos.

3. Sarcasmo.

4. Acontecimento ou resultado totalmente diferente do que eram as expectativas (ex.: ironia trágica).

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Outra pérola...

...do Fantástico Woody Allen!

Chamar as coisas pelos nomes!

SEMPRE!

Porque será?

If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?

Recomeçar...

Get it!

Para lembrar....

If you cannot do anything about something, there is no point in worrying about it.

que tenho que esquecer...

In Live...

Pay attention to the signs!

Daqui